Comprehension:

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

When he was in college, a famous poet made a useful distinction for him. He had drunk (1) _______ in the poet's company to be compelled to describe to him a poem he was (2) _______ of. It would be a monologue of sorts, the self-contemplation of a student on a summer afternoon who is reading Euphuise. The poem itself would be a subtle (3) _______ of euphuisms, translating the heat, the day, the student's concerns, into symmetrical posies; translating even his (4) _______ and boredom with that famously foolish book into a euphuism. The poet nodded his big head in a sympathetic, rhythmic way as this was (5) _______ to him, then told him that there are two kinds of poems. There is the kind you write; there is the kind you talk about in bars. Both kinds have value and both are poems; but it's fatal to confuse them.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 2 .